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December 2024

The Digital Literacy Alliance Announces Recipients for its Fall 2024 Grant Cycle to Address Digital Inclusion

The Digital Literacy Alliance (DLA) announced its Fall 2024 grant cycle recipients. The latest cycle focused on innovative community engagement practices that address digital inclusion through resident volunteers, peer leadership, and/or community ambassador models. The Independence Public Media Foundation awarded the Digital Literacy Alliance $157,000 to support this particular set of initiatives.

How Silicon Valley is disrupting democracy

The internet loves a good neologism, especially if it can capture a purported vibe shift or explain a new trend. In 2013, the columnist Adrian Wooldridge coined a word that eventually did both.

The Future of Trustworthy Information: Learning from Online Content Creators

Journalism is facing a trust crisis. Audiences are increasingly skeptical that mainstream media serves their interests and are turning their attention away from traditional news outlets. Meanwhile, online content creators who engage in journalist-style work are building huge, loyal audiences that eclipse those of traditional media. This shift in attention can be attributed, in part, to the different types of relationships that journalists and creators have with their audiences. This paper examines these relationships through the lens of trustworthiness.

AT&T's copper retirement goals are 'realistic' – analyst

AT&T's framework to retire the bulk of its copper network faces static from some groups and the state of California. But the operator's development of an alternative POTS (plain old telephone service), and an increasingly favorable regulatory environment bode well for its plan, says a top policy analyst. "Considering changing circumstances, we believe [AT&T's] copper retirement goals are realistic," New Street Research analyst Blair Levin explained in a recent research note.

Sponsor 

National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Date 
Wed, 05/21/2025 - 09:00 to Thu, 05/22/2025 - 17:00

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration will host seven workshops for its Broadband Infrastructure Program, Connecting Minority Communities Program, Digital Equity, Enabling Middle Mile Broadband Infrastructure Program, and Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program grantees from February to May 2025.


Sponsor 

National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Date 
Tue, 05/13/2025 - 09:00 to Wed, 05/14/2025 - 17:00

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration will host seven workshops for its Broadband Infrastructure Program, Connecting Minority Communities Program, Digital Equity, Enabling Middle Mile Broadband Infrastructure Program, and Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program grantees from February to May 2025.


Sponsor 

National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Date 
Tue, 04/22/2025 - 09:00 to Wed, 04/23/2025 - 17:00

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration will host seven workshops for its Broadband Infrastructure Program, Connecting Minority Communities Program, Digital Equity, Enabling Middle Mile Broadband Infrastructure Program, and Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program grantees from February to May 2025.


Sponsor 

National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Date 
Tue, 04/08/2025 - 09:00 to Wed, 04/09/2025 - 17:00

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration will host seven workshops for its Broadband Infrastructure Program, Connecting Minority Communities Program, Digital Equity, Enabling Middle Mile Broadband Infrastructure Program, and Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program grantees from February to May 2025.


Why the broken telecommunications sector could be upwardly mobile

It takes a brave soul to call a recovery in European telecommunications. Yet there are a few, tentative signs that the struggling sector may be ringing in the changes. Providers of mobile telecommunications services have long been stuck in a value trap. Recently, however, there have been a few positive signals. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority approved Vodafone’s merger with Three UK without imposing the feared “structural” remedies. That’s good news for Vodafone itself.

Sponsor 

National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Date 
Tue, 03/18/2025 - 09:00 to Wed, 03/19/2025 - 17:00

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration will host seven workshops for its Broadband Infrastructure Program, Connecting Minority Communities Program, Digital Equity, Enabling Middle Mile Broadband Infrastructure Program, and Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program grantees from February to May 2025.


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